Mapping Colonialism
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When was the colonial expansion in Africa and in what period?
Period of decolonization: Home rule Ireland, Philippines independence, Japan 1945, end of League of Nations mandates & African and Asian independences
When was the English East India company?
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When was the French East India company?
'The voyages of
discovery were the beginning of a new era, one of world-wide
expansion by Europeans, leading in due course to an outright, if
temporary, European ... domination of the globe.' Who's quote is this?
We can date the onset of the expansion process roughly in relation to
two key events:
1 The early Portuguese explorations of the African coast (1430-1498),
and
2 Columbus's voyages to the New World (1492-1502).
'We Spaniards suffer from a disease that only gold can cure.' Who said that?
What is the sociological definition of discourse and according to who?
A discourse consists of several statements which work together and are together called a 'discursive formation'. By who?
'They (the statements of a discourse) refer to the
same object, share the same style and support "a strategy ... a common
institutional ... or political drift or pattern"' According to who?
The statements within a discursive formation need not all be the same. But
the relationships and differences between them must be
regular and systematic, not random. How is this system called by Foucalt?
statements, such a system of dispersion, whenever ... one can define a
regularity ... [then] we will say ... that we are dealing with a discursive
formation'
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